‘Absolute demolition’: Reigning champions Milwaukee Bucks knocked out by Boston Celtics in Game 7

The Boston Celtics has eliminated reigning champions the Milwaukee Bucks to advance through to the Eastern Conference Finals.

Grant Williams of the Boston Celtics. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Getty Images

Grant Williams scored 27 points as the Boston Celtics eliminated reigning champions the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday morning AEST with a 109-81 victory in Game 7 of their NBA Eastern Conference series.

Celtics forward Williams produced a deadly display of scoring from three-point range at the TD Garden as Boston advanced to a conference finals showdown with the Miami Heat with a 4-3 series win.

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Williams’s red-hot shooting from beyond the arc was emblematic of Boston’s superiority from the field as the Bucks missed a slew of wide open looks.

Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo finished with 25 points, 20 rebounds and nine assists for Milwaukee.

But the Celtics’ three-point shooting accuracy proved the difference between the two teams as Boston completed a comeback from 3-2 down in the best-of-seven series.

Boston dropped 22 of 55 from downtown, in stark contrast to Milwaukee, who converted just four of 33 attempts from beyond the arc.

Game 7 absolute demolition. That was so much fun.

— Marc D'Amico (@Marc_DAmico) May 15, 2022

The scene outside the Garden in Boston right now. pic.twitter.com/3zuFI5MQov

— Sean Kelley (@SeanKelleyLive) May 15, 2022

Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks handles the ball against Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics. Picture: Adam Glanzman/Getty Images/AFP

Williams led the three-point blitzkrieg with seven threes in his 27-point haul. Jayson Tatum made five-of-nine threes to finish with 23 points.

Payton Pritchard also got in on the act, with four three-pointers from the bench in a tally of 14 points.

Only one Milwaukee player — Bobby Portis — made multiple three-pointers. Portis finished with two in his 10-point haul.

Boston face top seeds Miami in game one of the Eastern Conference finals on Tuesday in a rematch of their 2020 series.

Miami won that series 4-2 to advance to the NBA Finals.

— AFP